Word: mancha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MANCHA is a show which a lot of people loved. I thought the book was mediocre (that's the book for the show, not Don Quixote), the songs were mediocre, and the show was mediocre. Tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., in MIT's Kresge Auditorium...
...EVER a superb 19th century play were ripe for musical adaptation on the American stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is it. The swashbuckling hero, the ever-so-radiantly-beautiful heroine, the villain, the grand gestures, the love poems and pathetic deaths-any playwright who missed out on Man of La Mancha would have to be almost a genius to blow theis opportunity...
...countryside until he discovers his spiritual roots. Besides Burton, the cast boasts Elizabeth Taylor, playing Polly Garter as she might have looked if she worked Miami Beach at $100 a trick; Peter O'Toole, who appears to have dashed right over from the set of Man of La Mancha, still wearing his same makeup; and various excellent character actors like Vivien Merchant, Glynis Johns and Victor Spinetti. The film is actually brief, but it seems ruthlessly long, like being trapped in an endless high school assembly...
CINEMA 57 COMPLEX Man of La Mancha...
...MANCHA. Aside from The House of the Dead, it is difficult to think of another book quite so ill-suited for musical adaptation as Don Quixote. That did not prevent the stage version of Man of La Mancha from racking up 2,328 performances in New York City alone, besides being translated into almost as many tongues as the King James Bible. Nor has it forestalled this epically vulgar movie. Dale Wasserman's script plunks Cervantes down in a dank dungeon to await his trial by the Inquisition; there he performs Don Quixote as a charade for the amusement...